Crafnant is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 2003. House.
Crafnant
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-balcony-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 October 2003
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crafnant, Afon Artro Valley, Llanbedr, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 617 292
- Coordinates
- 52.84274, -4.05414
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Crafnant is a two-storey house, built with a rendered stone exterior and a slate roof, situated on a downhill site and aligned roughly northwest to southeast. The building features tall rubble stone stacks with dripstones and capping that mark the extent of the original house. The layout consists of a two-unit plan with the main entrance located to the right of center, accessed through a gabled porch. The windows are all modern, with those on the first floor positioned beneath dormer gables.
At the rear, there is a later single bay extension that continues the slope of the main roof. An additional bay, which originally served as a dairy and granary, is attached to the upper gable end of the house. This bay has a loft entry to the first floor and features small, misaligned windows. It extends as a wing at the back of the house, connecting it to the 'tyddyn traean'. This wing is constructed of exposed rubble stone and also has a slate roof, with a doorway and a single window located beneath the eaves.
Although not inspected during the latest survey, previous records by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) noted that the main house retained its cross passage plan, which included a hall at the upper end and a likely heated parlour at the lower end, converted from two small service rooms. The surviving hall partition was made of 18th-century raised fielded panelling, with a section of the original post and panel partition still visible beneath the stairs. The original stone staircase, which was located beside the hall fireplace, had been removed, possibly to allow direct access to the dairy and granary.
Local climate
Crafnant sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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